Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-19
LOCAL BREyTTEs.

The Sacramento river rose yesterday t.
II feet 10 inches.
The wagon road leading out of Washing
ton is again covered with water and scarce
ly passable.
The steamer Constance arrived from San
Francisco yesterday with q barge load o.
lumber for the Friend & Terry Lumber
Company.
Mrs. Larcener, who was arrested on sus
picion of insanity on Thursday, will be ex
amined by the Commissioners of Lunacy
this morning.
Searchers after mushrooms were toler
ably well rewarded yesterday, but it will
require a day or two of warm sun to bring
out big crop"
Enghshmen, their sons and grandsons
are invited to attend the meeting of Ben.
bow Lodge, Sons of ST. George, at Changers
Hall, tomorrow at 2:30 P. NJ.
d. Edward Collins, of Oakland, will give
business talk to young men next Monday
evening at the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION rooms, on Labor, Study"
1t is said that an officer will arrive here
tomorrow from Kansas City, Mo-, bring
ing back William J. Morgan, the default
ing Treasurer of Butte county, who will be
taken to Oroville for an examination of his
affairs.
The Lyceum of the Central NJ. E. Church
held its usual monthly meeting last night
in the vestry of the church. There was a
large attendance of members and visitors,
and varied and interesting programme
was carried out.
The Robert Emmett Club announce that
they will give their annual entertainme nt
and ball at Turner Hall, on Friday even
ing, March 4th A choice literary and
musical programme is in preparation,
which will be participated in by the best
local talent
No tickets to maskers will be sold on the
evening of the masquerade ball-the only
one of the season-to be given by the Sac
ramento Turn Verein on Tuesday evening,
March 1st. Those who desire tickets
should procure them st once, as they are
selling rapidly.
These arrests were made yesterday: w.
/. Sharp, by officers Agner and Rider, for
being drunk Josephine Macabo, by officer
Sullivan, for exhibiting; Mrs. Chambers,
by officer Agner, for misdemeanor; John
Fips, by officer Sullivan, for carrying con-
cealed weapons.
In the case of John NJ. Hotz, recently
convicted in the Superior Court on a charge
of assault with deadly weapon, counsel
for defendant, J. j. West, yesterday made a
motion for new trial. which was argued
and taken under advisement, the case
going over until next Friday.
A Raymond & Whitcomb excursion
party, occupying four Pullman cars, came
up from San Francisco about o'clock last
evening, having arrived in the State by the
Southern route, and at s o'clock this morn
ing they will start eastward by special
train, and thus have a grand view of the
Sierras in midwinter.
William Raich, of 251 William street,
New York, has written to Mayor Brown
asking for information concerning the
whereabouts of William Norman Mills,
who, in December, 1885, wrote his friends
that he was sick in the Sacramento hos
pi,al. Since that date his friends have not
heard from nor of him.
An old man was arrested in Chico one
day recently on the suspicion that be was
insane. In his pocket was found 0,000
in paper money, and he said he had just
escaped from the hands of the real estate
agents in the southern part of the State.
As this satisfactorily explained his Wild
hunted look, he was allowed to go.
A large number of men who had been
working as snow-shovelers on the hill re-
turned to the city Thursday night, their
occupation being gone. Lively work in
the cold atmosphere had given them i'm
mense appetites, and, when three or four
of tn M happened into restaurant at the
same time, they seemed likely to breed q
famine.
person crossing the Third-str bridge
to the depot yesterday could not help
thinking of the change Of climate that a
ride of less than four hours will develop in
California. Some of the willow trees near
the end of the bridge were donning their
leaves for the new season, while passing
along one of the tracks was freight train
from the hill, with the roofs of the cars
covered with snow, souvenir of the recent
blockade.
The Signal Service reports of yesterday
give the highest and lowest temperature
for Sacramento as being $50 and 4io. with
high northerly winds, and clear and seem
ingly cold weather. but by the thermom-
eter the lowest temperature was but 40
The temperature one actually feels is that
of the dew point, and il was down, yester-
day, to 4l0 at o'clock in the morning and
800 at noon, and had risen TO $40 at I
o'clock at night.
F. W. Johnston recently had Thaddeus
Mcconnell, of Eli Grove, arrested on a
warrant from Justice Davis Court, in this
city, charging malicious mischief, Neon
nell having killed three greyhounds be-
longing to Johnston. After hearing the
evidence, the Justice dismissed the case
because malice on the part of the defend.
ent had not been shown. Not lelishing
this defeat, Johnston has brought. suit in
in the Superior Court against the slayer of
his CANNES for $500 damages, which sum
he fixes as the value OF the dogs